The fishing vessel, transporting over 50 tons of ammunition, rocket fuel and fuses, intercepted the US Navy on the way from Iran to Yemen. The US military seized smuggling in the Oman Gulf on December 1.
“The Navy personnel (the USS Lewis B. Puller, ESB 3 expeditionary base) discovered an illegal load during the landing on the flag test, which became the second large illegal removal of the fifth US fleet per month,” the said saying In the statement of the Navy quoted by Reuters.
The US military found about 1.1 million rounds of 7.62 mm caliber, 25 thousand rounds of 12.7 mm caliber, almost 7 thousand distance fuses and more than 2.1 tons of fuel, which is used for hand -made shells anti -tank grenade launchers. Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the fifth fleet of the United States, whose area of responsibility is the Middle East said that this “large-scale interception” shows that Iran continues to “illegally transfer deadly assistance” and perform “destabilizing actions.”